adjustive

[ uh-juhs-tiv ]

adjective

1. concerned with, making, or controlling adjustments:

   to settle in a chair with adjustive motions; a thermostat with an adjustive dial.

Word History and Origins

Origin of adjustive¹

First recorded in 1880–85; adjust + -ive

Example Sentences

By reason of having two operative bars, b, c, that which can be most readily moved may be operated to admit the piece or to adjust the bars to suit the length of the work, while that having the finer adjustive motion, as c, may be used for the final measuring only, thus preserving it from use, and therefore from wear as much as possible; or coarser measurements may be made with one bar, and more minute ones with the other.

From Project Gutenberg

The organization dedicates itself to "optimize the status quo by fostering adjustive adherence to procedural abstractions and rhetorical clearances."

From Time Magazine Archive

The convening scientists* were particularly interested in man's "adjustive struggle."

From Time Magazine Archive

Said Chicago Psychologist Samuel J. Beck: "The presumably all-intellectual, nonemotional, strictly realistic attitude�that attitude traditionally so hallowed in science�is not useful equipment in the adjustive struggle."

From Time Magazine Archive

Prime Minister Eisaku Sato calls the Japanese slowdown "an adjustive stage after years of phenomenal growth," predicts an upsurge soon.

From Time Magazine Archive